Favorite Quotes May 19, 2008

I try to update this when I can, so check back often!

 

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. -George Bernard Shaw

 

“If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.  I’m not kidding.  the arts are not a way to make a living.  They are a very human way of making life more bearable.  Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow for heaven’s sake.  Sing in the shower.  Dance to the radio.  Tell stories.  Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.  Do it as well as you possibly can.  You will get an enormous reward.  You have created something.” - Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005 (pg. 24) 

 

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -Dale Carnegie

 

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. - Aldous Huxley

 

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury

 

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. -Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) [this one is for Rachell and I ]

 

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)

 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.-Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)

 

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -Emiliano Zapata (1877 – 1919)

 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

 

Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient. -Joan Allen, as the character Laine Hanson, The Contender, 2000

 

Loyalty isn’t about being a persons spokesperson, its about defending someone in their absence from unjustified attacks. Its about having their back when they need it most because they have yours if you should ever need it. -J. Man, Digital ADD, Red Letter Day, 2008

 

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect. -Ted Turner

 

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -Mark Twain

 

Try not to become a [wo]man of success but rather to become a [wo]man of value. -Albert Einstein (and edited by the feminist in me)

 

But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. -Waiter Rant   

    

 

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -Henny Youngman

 

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet. -Mae West

 

I’ve learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world. -Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999

 

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. -Mark Twain

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. -Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

 

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. -George Lucas, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung

 

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -Mark Twain

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part. -Aimee Mullins

 

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. -Mark Twain

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -Friedrich Nietzsche

 

I love life…Yeah, I’m sad, but at the same time, I’m really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It’s like…It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I’m feeling is like a beautiful sadness. -Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003

 

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -Mark Twain